people in the caribe dont generally farm or garden for that matter, the ground wont sustaingrowing due to nematodes abundant in the soils.when corps farms come in they dump chemicals on the soils and keep doing that since thesoils across the caribe are so weak. rain forest usually means lush on the surface but notmuch below ground surface.

what the 'us' imports is most often the cheapest shit being exported.coffee and rum are the best examples. we get the rum no one across caribe wants.we get the coffee NO One in the caribe will drink. at 5x the cost.

this sounds as tho, once again, big corps have destroyed the environment, the habitat,more degradation will ensue since there is barely a tree left on any of these islands.drought always follows deforestation, and with drought all sorts of bugs virus and deathcommence.

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You've always been eating shitty bananas. The only bananas which will survive the shipping to the US are the shitty strains harvested green.

My mother grew up with the Gros Michel and said they were great. Then one day she discovered she didn't like bananas anymore. They didn't taste the same. I grew up with. and am still eating, the shitty Cavendish. One cut up in my cereal every morning.

people in the caribe dont generally farm or garden for that matter, the ground wont sustaingrowing due to nematodes abundant in the soils.when corps farms come in they dump chemicals on the soils and keep doing that since thesoils across the caribe are so weak. rain forest usually means lush on the surface but notmuch below ground surface.

what the 'us' imports is most often the cheapest shit being exported.coffee and rum are the best examples. we get the rum no one across caribe wants.we get the coffee NO One in the caribe will drink. at 5x the cost.

this sounds as tho, once again, big corps have destroyed the environment, the habitat,more degradation will ensue since there is barely a tree left on any of these islands.drought always follows deforestation, and with drought all sorts of bugs virus and deathcommence.

I don't understand all the science behind the crop fail, but in the Cavendish case, they were able to survive the first fungus that wiped out the Gros Michel. And like the Gros, the Cavendish transport well. But the soil isn't getting any diversity so the Cavendish fruit is like a continuous clone of itself and it ruined the soil on the plantations and made it vulnerable to the new strain of fungus.

Until now, I never heard of the Gros Michel banana. From reading up on it, it was basically wiped our by disease in the 1950s and the only ones available were from Thailand up to the early 60s. I guess the only one I've eaten is the Cavendish variety and when you haven't eaten any other variety you have nothing to compare it to.

Until now, I never heard of the Gros Michel banana. From reading up on it, it was basically wiped our by disease in the 1950s and the only ones available were from Thailand up to the early 60s. I guess the only one I've eaten is the Cavendish variety and when you haven't eaten any other variety you have nothing to compare it to.

Right, that's why I didn't know I was eating a shitty variety until I read the article. And I didn't know there were so many varieties of banana. I always assumed a banana was just a banana.

during the day to day growth of drought in CO, in 2002, arose from the ground drylanddistempter (or pigeon fever) which hadnt been seen in the area in 100years, no vets alive had seen it.there were a flurry of distant still around bugs and issues that arose anew from "drought".

i think the fungi the virus the fevers all come again from abused soils having no mechanism leftto contain or offset these natural issues.

theyve been messing with nanas for years now, altering the DNA so control the size sincethey think we all want smaller nanas.

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My mother grew up with the Gros Michel and said they were great. Then one day she discovered she didn't like bananas anymore. They didn't taste the same. I grew up with. and am still eating, the shitty Cavendish. One cut up in my cereal every morning.

For about ten years I discovered I didn't like bananas either. It was after I had to tunnel through what I would describe as banana peat, a black moist midden laid down deep under the under hold in a banana boat. Allowed to ripen for twenty years.

I talked about this in another post some time back. I couldn't wash off the smell of bananas. It was a good thing the ship still smelled like the fire or people would have noticed.

Everyone noticed how that banana peat smelled when it was being hauled topside, but they didn't notice it being especially on me. The fellows who had to haul it topside in buckets and dump it noticed it more than most, they had it smeared on their legs.

people in the caribe dont generally farm or garden for that matter, the ground wont sustaingrowing due to nematodes abundant in the soils.when corps farms come in they dump chemicals on the soils and keep doing that since thesoils across the caribe are so weak. rain forest usually means lush on the surface but notmuch below ground surface.

what the 'us' imports is most often the cheapest shit being exported.coffee and rum are the best examples. we get the rum no one across caribe wants.we get the coffee NO One in the caribe will drink. at 5x the cost.

this sounds as tho, once again, big corps have destroyed the environment, the habitat,more degradation will ensue since there is barely a tree left on any of these islands.drought always follows deforestation, and with drought all sorts of bugs virus and deathcommence.

i failed to mention people in the caribe had much food from trees vs gardening.banana trees avocado trees breadfruit trees along with the citrus and others. these trees greweverywhere and you had them in the yards.i made it sound as tho they had nothing to eat.

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I know a little about bananas, but only a little. I do know that indeed they've been genetically engineered the old slow way, by repeated cloning and hybridizing. Most fruit is like that. Blueberries aren't blue any more, because they bred a strain that held up to shipping better but was a sickly red in color. They dye them.

We're also running out of honeybees, but you knew that. It's largely because of pesticide, and you knew that too, but Monsanto has good lobbyists.

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